AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
Category: Best Practices
How Executives Can Avoid Being Disrupted by Emerging Technologies
Executives must anticipate rapid technology shifts, which increasingly disrupt businesses, and find new markets and partnering opportunities. Accenture’s global disruption index, which quantifies economic, social, geopolitical, climate, consumer and technology changes, indicates disruption occurs at a rate 50 times greater than just five years ago. How can executives stay ahead of the curve? Anticipating Technology […]
Navigating Strategic Partnerships: Aligning Legal, Procurement, and Business Priorities
When leading strategic initiatives, executives are often tasked with bringing on new partners or negotiating new contracts to drive critical business outcomes. Whether you’re onboarding a key technology vendor, a manufacturing partner, or a strategic consulting firm, you need to manage the often competing priorities of various internal stakeholders. Three of the most crucial—yet frequently […]
Innovating with AI in Regulated Industries
AI drives efficiency and better customer experience in insurance, if done transparently with strong governance to ensure fairness, ethics, and compliance.
Learning and Cloud Technology: Capitalising on India’s Superpowers
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. —Brian Herbert, Author When I was 10, my parents bought me a Sinclair ZX81. The slim plastic-encased computer had a stick-on keyboard and a precariously attached memory pack. Programs were saved on cassette tapes. […]
Centralizing or Decentralizing Generative AI? The Answer: Both
For maximum generative AI impact, centralize foundations (infrastructure, data governance) but decentralize innovation across business domains. This hybrid model balances robust AI governance with agile delivery, enabling rapid prototyping aligned with strategic goals.
The Power of a Question Mark
Dive deep into individual experiences beyond data metrics to uncover blindspots and build lasting trust by focusing on customer needs – a compelling case study on embracing change while preserving core values.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Achieving Cloud Cost Synergies
Leverage AWS to accelerate post-merger IT integration and cost synergies through data center/storage consolidation, database modernization, volume discounts, and simplified procurement.
Overseeing AI Risk in a Rapidly Changing Landscape
With AI’s rapid evolution, boards face multi-faceted risks requiring diverse oversight, technical expertise, agile risk-mitigation, clear values guiding deployment, and robust cybersecurity – proactively managing uncertainties while capturing AI’s transformative potential.
Does Your People Strategy Match Your Transformation Objectives?
Unlocking innovation demands aligning talent strategy with organizational aspirations; an oil company’s overlooked compensation model discouraged risk-taking, undermining its transformation goals until leadership revised employee stock rewards.
Untangling Your Organisational Hairball: Well-Controlled
One of the most common sources of org debt is the knee-jerk reaction. Every time something goes wrong, we immediately jump to create a constraint to prevent future mistakes. So we institute a new role, rule, or process. As a result over a decade or two, a one-step process becomes twenty steps. Or five different […]